1. PLASTICS: The New World Disorder
• Troubling Trends
• Partial & False Solutions
• Turning off the Tap

2. Oil & gas supply drivers
Plastics Industry Expansion
Almost 4x
current
Less valuable to recycling systems
2x current
After decades of continuous growth, global plastic production is expected to
double in the next 20 years, almost quadruple by 2050
RECYCLING WON’T SOLVE THIS PROBLEM
Oil & gas supply drivers
TROUBLING TRENDS

3. Packaging Currently 26% of all plastics
At this rate, by 2050 plastic packaging volumes would be more than the entire plastics industry today (318 million tons annually)
TROUBLING TRENDS

4. Enter the Sachet TROUBLING TRENDS METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES, JULY 2016
way use of plastic is expanding
Show sachets, tell TV ads
Who is pushing this?
TROUBLING TRENDS METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES, JULY 2016

5. Same report: projected would be as much plastics as fish in ocean by 2050
TROUBLING TRENDS Source: The New Plastics Economy, ellenmacarthurfoundation.org

6. Plastic Industry’s False Solutions
American Chemistry Council (ACC) pushes incineration for plastics
“Definitions of renewable energy should be broadened to include energy from non-recycled plastics.”
-ACC website

7. Turning off the Tap Global: 200+ Orgs demanded better
We work with our cities and communities to conserve what’s left of our quickly-diminishing natural resources …
through reduction of waste and problematic products, redesign, reuse, repair, re-purposing, recycling, composting, and other solutions…

8. Turning off the Tap
Indonesia, Bangladesh, more: nat’l action on bags

9. Turning off the Tap
Taiwan, more…: local bottled water, food packaging bans

10. Turning off the Tap
India: Multiple state bans on styrofoam, bags National multilayer packaging ban on the table

11. Turning off the Tap
Philippines & many countries: Zero Waste leadership

12. Monica Wilson
GAIA
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